This week’s “Variations on a Theme”: Alderman Week
Tag: Vol. 41 No. 17
Issue of Jan. 19 – 25, 2012
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The Young Playwrights Festival gets a new home, for now
A review of The Pegasus Players’ Young Playwrights Festival in the soon-retired Hull House.
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The past week on the Bleader
Some notable stories from the past week (January 15-21, 2012) on the Bleader
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Lost in Murakami
In many ways, 1Q84 is the ideal Murakami. So why don’t I love it (yet)?
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Baseball fiction: Mythological hooey, you’re out
Taking issue with Chad Harbach’s baseball novel “The Art of Fielding”
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Bassist Marlene Rosenberg plays Room 43 on Sunday
Veteran Chicago bassist Marlene Rosenberg drops an album with a terrific new quartet and plays a release show.
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Jerzy Skolimowski and Deep End
Jerzy Skolimowski’s coming-of-age classic Deep End screens at Doc Films this weekend
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The Discerning Drinker’s Guide
Chicago magazine’s guide for the discerning drinker features some of our favorite mixologists
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One Bite: bo kho banh mi at Nhu Lan Bakery
Beef stew is on the menu at Nhu Lan, Ravenswood’s banh mi headquarters.
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More Nicholas Ray
Nicholas Ray’s final feature, We Can’t Go Home Again, and a documentary on its genesis, Don’t Expect Too Much, screen tonight at Block Museum of Art
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Grandiose Old Party
Only Newt Gingrich can protect us from Obama’s frightening radicalism, Gingrich says
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“Every boy will walk tall, when he wears a holster and pistol . . .”
A look at toy guns, both before and after the modifications were enforced
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12 O’Clock Track: Thaís Gulin, “ôÔÔôôÔôÔ”
Young Brazilian singer Thaís Gulin released one of last year’s best Brazilian records.